War and the Arc of Human Experience (i)

from anthropologist Glenn Petersen

Glenn Petersen photographed the anti-aircraft defenses of Ha Noi as an enlisted man in the back of an aircraft.

On the way home, larking about from his carrier, he first saw a lagoon with outrigger canoes and thatch buildings, the way of life he has spent his own life getting to know, representing, and for some time now advising as these settlers of the Pacific have advanced in sovereignty and now offer the world system their politics of governance in rising seas.

Glenn represents to me the working class vigor the expansion of our university after 1945 brought into our own thought, and the effect Vietnamese nationalism had on the world system, my topic as an ethnographer of the peoples of Viet Nam.

He has now turned his own attention in how this all has worked.

Viet Nam letters has addressed War and the Arc of Human Experience by Glenn Petersen 7 times so far.

Second was March 7, 2022, followed by March 28, 2022 and April 27, 2022. Fifth was May 30, 2022 and sixth was July 11, 2022.

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The colophon of these Viet Nam letters, directly above, shows the janitor speaking with poet David A. Willson on a Veterans Day.